El Father Plays Himself

El Father Plays Himself

Original title: El Father como sí mismo

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7.0/10

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4/25/2020

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1h 45min

El Father Plays Himself

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Documentary

Synopsis

A young film director returns to Venezuela, inspired to make a film based on his father's life in the Amazon jungle (La Fortaleza, Jorge Thielen Armand). He casts Father to play himself. What starts as an act of love and ambition — filmmaking to more deeply understand the self, and the other — spirals into a process which confronts Father’s struggles with addiction and his life devoid of his son. EL FATHER PLAYS HIMSELF holds a steady lens to the way the act of cinema unearths, binds, heals and destroys.

Direction: Mo Scarpelli

Producer: Rodrigo Michelangeli, Manon Ardisson

Cast

Jorge Thielen Armand

Jorge Thielen Armand

Self

Rodrigo Michelangeli

Rodrigo Michelangeli

Self